CLAIM
A video of a doctor being attacked, presumably by a patient’s family, despite police personnel being present, has gone viral on social media. The CCTV video of the incident is being shared with the message that a doctor was attacked while the police was present on the spot.
The Quint received a query regarding the video on its WhatsApp number.
The video has also been shared on Facebook.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The video is from 2018 and the incident it shows took place in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district. It is being recirculated in the wake of the doctors' strike in West Bengal.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
The time stamp on the CCTV clip clearly mentions the video is from 24 October 2018.
We conducted a search on Google with the key words 'doctor CCTV' within the time frame 24 October-26 October 2018.
This led us to a local news channel IBC24's report on the incident, which said that it took place in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind.
According to the news report, the doctor was beaten by the family members of a woman, who had lost her life at the district hospital while waiting for an ambulance to take her to Gwalior, where she had been referred.
The report adds that the guard who had been posted at the hospital was an inactive witness to the attack and did not do anything to prevent the patient’s kin from attacking the doctor.
The incident was also reported by News18 Madhya Pradesh.
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